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Flashcards by Chrystal Angel J, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chrystal Angel J
almost 10 years ago
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| Literal language- Means exactly what it says at the simplest level Figurative language has a more imaginative meaning | Emotive language-Is used to make us respond by using an emotion. It does two things: Tells us how the writer feels. Makes the reader feel some typa a way on the words being used. |
| Inclusive language when words are used to include all people e.g We are a rainbow nation Exclusive categorizes people e.g Many hotels have one rate for local people and a much higher for tourists Exclusive language may also carry gender or race-related implications e.g. Every doctor has HIS own practice | Fact is something which could be proved. Opinion seems true to us but we don't have the ability to prove it. |
| Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Allusion Direct or indirect referral to a particular aspect e.g. Milton's poem paradise lost deals with temptation from the Bible Antithesis Compares and contradicts statements Apostrophe Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character. Assonance Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring word. Appropriation A original text used for a different audience Malapropism misuse of words with similar sounds Euphemism The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. Epigram a brief and pointed statement which contains humour Hyperbole An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. Irony The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. Innuendo A disapproving remark that hints at something Litotes A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | Metaphor An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. Metonymy A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Oxymoron A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. Paradox A statement that appears to contradict itself. Personification A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. Pun A play on words. Simile A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. Synecdoche A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966"). Rhyme Depends on sound rather than word written Rhetorical Expects no answer Understatement A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. Spoonerism Mixing up of the initial sounds of spoken words |
| Pre-fixes ante-before e.g antenatal meaning before birth anti-against e.g. anticlockwise auto-self e.g. automatic bene-good e.g. benefit bi-both e.g. benefit bio-life e.g biography circum- around dis- not e.g. displease | ex-out of e.g. export inter- between e.g. interact mal- badly e.g. malnutrition micro- small e.g. microsope mis- wrong e.g. misuse mono- one post- after- e.g. post war |
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